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Students are attached to relevant industries, firms, research institutes with a view to developing more skills in Surveying and Geoinformatics and related areas. Provision of additional opportunities to learn more on, carry out surveying projects and write technical reports. Students are supervised during the training period and are expected to keep log-books and other records designed for the purpose of monitoring their performances.

Basic concept and processes of surveying computations. Field and office computations, decimal and significant figures, accurate and inaccurate figures, rounding off and approximation. Care of computation machines. Methods used in surveying computation. Selection and manipulation of formulae for surveying computations. Computations of distances and angles with their various corrections. Computation of grid, magnetic, whole circle and reduced bearings from true bearing. Computations of rectangular coordinates from one station to the other, Computations of bearing and distances from coordinates of known points. Closing misclosure, treatment of misclosure and attainable accuracy. Area computations of surveying networks, Computation of omitted data in a closed network observation. Computations involved in the booking of field observations.

Basic principles, design, construction, sources of errors, accuracy attainable, uses and care of the following surveying equipment: Ranging poles, cross staves, optical square prism. Chains, wires, lines tapes, steel bands, Survey compasses, Tripods. Effect of diurnal variations, magnetic, storms and local attraction on compass. Different types and uses of levels, parts of levels and leveling staves. Sub tense bar, Range finder, Parallax bar, Stereoscope, Plan meter, Pantograph, Coordinatograph, Plane-table and other elementary surveying Instruments. Working principles, construction, classification, calibration, types, uses, care, sources of errors, accuracy attainable, temporary and permanent adjustment of the following surveying instruments: EDMs, Theodolites, Levels, Tachometers, Altimeter, Psychomotor, Gravimeter, Doppler shift frequency, Laser, Global Positioning System (GPS), Total station Instruments targets/reflectors, Digital Plotters and scanners, Comparators and Drone.

Principles and uses of topographic maps/plan. Methods of obtaining field data for topographic surveys such as traversing, leveling, tachometry, triangulation, trilateration, intersection, resection planning, office and field recce, observations, field completion and detail survey, computations and adjustment. Contouring and production of other topographic maps/plans.

Opportunity Identification (Sources of business opportunities in Nigeria. Environmental scanning, Demand and supply gap/unmet needs/market gaps/Market Research. Unutilised resources, Social and climate conditions and Technology adoption gap). New business development (business planning, market research). Entrepreneurial Finance (Venture capital, Equity finance, Micro finance, Personal savings, Small business investment organizations and Business plan competition). Entrepreneurial marketing and e-commerce (Principles of marketing, Customer Acquisition & Retention, B2B, C2C and B2C models of e-commerce, First Mover Advantage, E- commerce business models and Successful E-Commerce Companies,). Small Business Management/Family Business: Leadership & Management, Basic book keeping, Nature of family business and Family Business Growth Model. Negotiation and Business communication (Strategy and tactics of negotiation/bargaining, Traditional and modern business communication methods). Opportunity Discovery Demonstrations (Business idea generation presentations, Business idea Contest, Brainstorming sessions, Idea pitching). Technological Solutions (The Concept of Market/Customer Solution, Customer Solution and Emerging Technologies, Business Applications of New Technologies - Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual/Mixed Reality (VR), Internet of Things (IoTs), Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Renewable Energy among others. Digital Business and E- Commerce Strategies).